NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8960, 18 August 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

HVtt Queensland Government is taking SS, to engage from the United States two instructors as experts in meat-preserving. The Pakuranga Hunt met yesterday at Orakei Bridge, but it was more for practice than for a regular hunt, and the attendance • was small. Cbristchurch congreMr Worthington'e Christchurch congregation. "Students of Truth," have opened a new temple to seat 1,650. The building is free of debt. Carl Hertz, the illusionist, was not impressed with New Zealand weather. He declares that it rained thirty-three out of the fifty nights he was in the colony. Reports from the north-west of South Australia show the drought to be the worse known, with the cxceptian of that in lsso. Cattle and sheep are dying in considerable The other day the Government officials paid over to a number of natives at Whanearei some suras of money, in ' ment of the native interests m the Little Barrier Island. _ . The North Queensland Meat Export Company, Alligator Creek, are, says the Townsrille Bulletin, slaughtering 500 head of cattle weekly, and are expected to work it this rate for several months. The Tasmanian Treasurer received a letter written in a disguised hand, threatening to blow out the brains of JSJr. Fysh, Mr. Bird, and Mr. CI arc if the duties on the necessaries of life are announced that the choice of a coadjutor to the Archbishop of Hobart has fallen upon a distinguished priest resident in the northern part of the island, but the name has not yet been made -public. , _ , The students at the Roseworthy (South Australia) Agricultural College, recently etzuck, owing to the alleged poor and insufficient food that was supplied to themThree ran away, and two were brought back, the other one being expelled tor

Itauooruiuawuu. _ .. - - The National Association of New South Wales have decided to make the question of irrigation a prominent one during the coming session of Parliament by directing public attention to the importance of the matter as affecting the interests of the whole community. . As the result of the Victorian Premier s circular urging Ministers to curtail the printing expenses in their departments, several of them will nob issue a printed report during the ensuing session, as has been the custom. Other anuual reports will be greatly diminished in size. The Minton tiles for the floor of the annexe of the Art Gallery have to hand, and the workmen are now busy laying them down.. The flooring will absorb about 24,000. They are of chaste S,Uern and colour, and look very artistic. r. flandcock, the contractor, expects to be finished up in about a month. The monthly meeting of Lodge Ara No. 1, N.Z.C., was held last evening at Freemasons' Hall, the W.M., Brother A. S. Russell, P.D.G.M. presiding. There was a good attendance of brethren and visitors, and the business, which was entirely of a craft character, included two passings and three raisings. Mr. Jacob Moses, an old resident of South Geelong, bequeathed £4648 to the Melbourne Hebrew congregation. The rentals from the estate are to be primarily employed in paying off a mortgage owing by the congregation, and thereafter a Jacob Moses fund is to be established, to be " always ready to assist the congregation." A recent visitor to a lunatic asylum near Sydney saw among the inmates a near relative of a British peer, a brother-in-law of a baronet, a son of a dean of the Church of England, a Church of England clergyman acting as a warder, two captains and one colonel of the British army, the brother of ; a popular English novelist, and a member Of the famous L&ht Brigade of Balaclava. , Referring to the rabbit nuisance in Vic- j toria, a resident of Brisbane writes to the Victorian Government suggesting that as it has been found impossible to exterminate the rabbits by the ordinary agencies sf man" a day might be appointed on which a united prayer might be offered up in the churches to supplicate Divine intervention." The Hawke's Bay Herald says that a number of the pupils of Te Ante College dedicated their holidays and talents to help forward the sanitary, social, and religious -amelioration of their race. To that end they went on foot to every pa in the district, preaching, lecturing on elementary, social, and sanitary truths, and conversing with the Maoris on any matter likely to ? fleet their welfare.